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PRI hosted Round Table on Improvement of mechanisms to investigate cases of torture in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
PRESS RELEASE Penal Reform International (PRI) Central Asia and the Coalition of Kazakhstan NGOs against torture are pleased to announce that on 14 September 2011 in Astana a round table will be held on «Improvement of mechanisms to investigate cases of torture in the Republic of Kazakhstan». The event is kindly supported by the European […]
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PRI: Death Penalty Abolition after Arab Spring
PRI’s MENA Regional Director gives some thoughts on the prospects for death penalty abolition, in light of the recent and current upheaval in the area. Interviewed at the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty AGM in Rabat, Taghreed Jaber spoke of her fears that the death penalty might be used as revenge, as well as […]
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PRI concerned about retrogression in Kazakhstan’s prison system
On 15 September 2011, authority for Kazakhstan’s penitentiary system will be transferred back from the Ministry of Justice to the Ministry of the Interior of Kazakhstan. Penal Reform International has serious concerns that this transfer of authority will undermine Kazakhstan’s previous reforms aimed at the mode rnisation and the demilitarisation of the penitentiary system. In […]